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I could see it. She was a delicate thing, petite even standing next to me and Professor Dallas, but I wasn't fooled by the packaging. Many were torn apart by his men, searching for jewels inside them. If he d ever had dreams of more, they were gone.

I'd seen too many cops go from cheerful to hardcore up in your face too many times. Don't kill them. Damn splinters. In less than a minute he'd found a small wire with a slightly thicker head sewn into the collar of the shirt.